Car-seat.



. Patented Aug. I4, I900. M. N. FDRNEY. Y

CAR SEAT.

(Application filed Apr. 18, 1899.)

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ATTORNEY WITNESSES UNITED S'ra'Ins PATENT tries.

MATTI-IIAS N. FORNEY, or New YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO SANFORD e. SOARRITT, OF sr. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CAR SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 655,771, dated August 14;, 1900. Application filed April 13, 1899. Serial No. 712,861. (No model.)

To 50% whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, MATTHIAS 1\T.FORNEY, of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Oar-Seats, of which improvement the following is a specification.

My present invention is an improvement upon that for which Letters Patent of the United States N 0. 360,148 were granted and issued to me under date of March 29, 1887; and its object is to provide simple and effective means whereby two oppositely-located foot-rests of a car-seat will be automatically and simultaneously moved in and by the re versal of the seat-back one into a service position for use and the other into a position below and closely adjacent to the bottom of the seat, so as to leave an open and unobstructed space under the seat for the reception of baggage or other articles.

To this end my invention, generally stated, consists in the combination, with a car seat and its reversing-arms, of two foot-rests located on opposite sides of a tilting frame pivoted below the seat and means for oscillating said tilting frame in and by the movements of the reversing-arms.

The improvement claimed is hereinafter fully set forth.

In the construction set forth in Letters Patent No. 360,148 aforesaid and in most instances of other forms known in practice the foot-rests are rigidly attached to the legs or standards which support the seat. They have also been applied as attached to connectingarms, with which they formed a tilting frame which was supported on pivots under the seat, so that either of the foot-rests could be depressed and the other simultaneously elevated. The action of foot-rests of this character was usually dependent upon the agency of the passengers who were to use them, and as passengers were often unfamiliar with the construction'or operation of such foot-rests they were frequently not moved into the position required for the use of those for whom they were intended. Under my present invention the connection of the foot-rests to the seat-back arms causes the former to be automatically moved into their proper positions by the act of reversing the seat-back and to be locked in such positions when the seat-back has been reversed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end view of a car-seat, illustrating an ap plication of my invention, the seat-arm being removed and the seat-back shown on the left side of the seat; and Fig. 2, a similar view with the back shown as reversed in positionthat is, on the right side of the seat.

The seat 1 is fitted in a cushion-frame of any suitable form and is supported at each end by a pair of crossed links or reversingarms 3 3 pivoted to a supporting-frame, (not shown,) as in Patent No. 360,148 aforesaid. Two foot-rests 4 1 are attached near each of their ends to a pair of arms 5 5% wit-h which they form a tilting frame, which is supported on its middle line upon pivots 6, about the common axial line of which the arms and footrests may be oscillated or tilted. One of the arms 5 of the tilting frame is connected by a link 7 with one of the reversing-arms 3, the link 7 being pivoted by a pin 8 to the arm 5, near the pivot 6 of the tilting frame, and by a pin 9 to the reversing-arm 3, below the pivot thereof. In practice it may be preferable to connect a reversing-arm at each end of the seat with an arm of the foot-rest frame in order to prevent the institution of unequal end strain. In the movement of reversal of the seat-back the'link '7 acts to coincidently impart movement to the foot-rest arms and footrests, and when the seat-back is brought into either of its two service positions the link 7, through its relation to the pivots of the reversing-arm and tilting frame, locks the footrest arms and foot-=rests in and prevents their displacement from the position relative to the seat which locates one of the foot-rests in position then proper for use and the otherin position where it will not obstruct the space below the seat.

While the seat-back is in the left-hand position, as shown in Fig. 1, the arm 5 and footrest 4i have been depressed by-the action of the reversingarm 3 and link 7, so that the foot-rest 4. is brought into the position which it should occupy to be used by a passenger in a seat behind that shown in Fig. 1. The arm 5 and foot-rest 4: were at the same time elevated so that the foot-rest l occupies a position close to the under side of the seat and allows the maximum space available for baggage or other articles below the seat.

In the reversal or movement of the seatback to the position shown in Fig. 2 the arm 5 and foot-rest 4 are raised and the arm 5 and foot-rest 4 are coincidently depressed, so that the foot-rest 4 is in position to be used by a passenger behind the seat-back, and the opposite foot -rest 4: is raised close to the under side of the seat. The movement of the arms 5 and 5, which support the foot-rests, is indicated by the positions of their center lines 6 6 and 6 6, respectively, and the traverse of the foot-rests by the arcs a b and c d, respectively.

I am aware that foot-rests on opposite sides of a frame capable of being tilted or oscillated about intermediate pivots were known prior to my invention, and such construction in and of itself I therefore disclaim.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination of a car-seat, a seatback, arms for reversing the seat-back, a tilting frame pivoted below the seat, two footrests located on opposite sides of said tilting frame, and a link directly connecting said tilting frame with one of the reversing-arms.

2. The combination of a car-seat, a seatback, arms for reversingthe seat-back, a tilting frame pivoted below the seat, two footrests located on opposite sides of said tilting frame, and a link pivoted to the tilting frame adjacent to its axial line and pivoted to one of the reversing-arms below the pivot thereof.

MATTHIAS N. FORNEY.

Witnesses:

J. Snowman BELL, W. A. OCoNNon. 

